I for one was in dire need of something - anything - to make me not abandon this sport, and Luke Bream might just have provided it. The whole thing sounds like a slightly more dedicated effort than the one put in by Tim Moore for his book French Revolutions (an entertaining read, but he did do a fair amount of corner cutting). Having stripped it off Rasmussen, they should give the maillot jaune to this guy.

"Oh no, Luke doesn't take drugs at the best of times, not even an aspirin if he has a headache. He does take some cod liver oil tablets, but apart from that he's doing this largely on Coca Cola and jam butties." Classic.

Nice link JJ. I quite liked the Tim Moore book, and at least he was open about the corner-cutting! His chapter on the location and story about the death of Tom Simpson was riveting, and something I hadn't known much about.

Thanks for the link, catfish. The reasoning in the article is very sound. I get the feeling there is no way to actually solve this problem. Whether doping is legal or not, money will always give you an edge: better drugs and/or more successfully hidden drugs.

You don't have to legalize sports doping to prevent these kinds of scandal. You just make your testing regimen easier to beat with certain testing during certain pre-scheduled times. That enables a sport to both have a testing regimen so they look symbolically like they are trying to prevent doping, without blowing apart the whole sport to catch all those who might be doping. I definitely prefer that. If the NFL decided to catch all the dopers and my favorite players and favorite teams were being constantly penalized, it would take a lot of fun out of it for me. I know players dope in the NFL, but I don't know who or how many. Ignorance is bliss and all that.